Cardanus JeronimusEncomium Neronis Blaeu 1640 - Signed, First edition. Neronis encomium by Cardano, Girolamo: Neronis Encomium HIER. CARDANI| NERONIS| ENCOMIUM.| AMSTERDAMI, Apud Ioh. et Cornelium Blaev,| A.o DCXL. With original leather cover. 12,5 X 7.5 cm. In Latin. Ioh. e Cornelius Blaeu. Amsterdam: 1640.144 pages. RARE. This is the first original historical work which is presenting Emperor Nero in a positive light, as modern historiography is doing nowadays. First edition in Basel, 1562.Then again in 1585. Hannover in 1619. Amsterdam 1640 and 1649 (first edition in Dutch). Lyon in 1663. Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt in 1966. New York, 1967, as a reprint of the 1663 edition. Milan 1986 (first edition in Italian). Rome, 1998. Frankfurt a. M, 1994, first edition in German. Hong Kong, 2012, first edition in English. 2 Ex Libris. The first belonging to Georges Montandon (1879-1944) a Swiss-French ethnographer. murdered with his wife by communist partisans. The second a signature by Angelo Paratico (1955) an Italian writer, who had translated this book into English. [Attributes: First Edition; Signed Copy; Hard Cover]

Machiavelli, NiccolòNicholas Machiavel's Prince. ... Translated out of Italian into English; By E[dward]. D[acres] London: R. Bishop for William Hils & Daniel Pakeman, 1640 First edition in English of one of the great books of the Renaissance and a classic of political philosophy. Machiavelli, long a diplomat for the Florentine Republic, was personally acquainted with many of the great leaders of the Renaissance including Lorenzo de Medici (the dedicatee of Il Principe), Louis XII of France, Emperor Maximilian, Catherine Sforza, and Piero Soderini. In 1502 he was sent as the Florentine envoy to the court of Cesare Borgia, duke of Valentinois. In Borgia he found an audacious and strong willed leader capable of deception and violence to achieve his ends, yet a man who appeared at all times both controlled and diplomatically prudent. Borgia provided the model for Machiavelli's ideal prince, Valentino. His book addressed the problem of the unification of a self-reliant Italy. "It was Machiavelli's intense preoccupation with this problem- what a state is and how to found one in existing circumstances- which caused the many riddles of his speculative writings ... He was by no means indifferent to private virtue ... but in the realm of politics he postponed morals to political expediency" (Britannica 11th ed.). "The Prince is far more than a book of directions to any one of the many Italian princelings. ... Machiavelli founded the science of modern politics on the study of mankind. ... Politics was a science to be divorced entirely from ethics, and nothing must stand in the way of its machinery. Many of the remedies he proposed for the rescue of Italy were eventually applied. His concept of the qualities demanded from a ruler and the absolute need of a national militia came to fruition in the monarchies of the seventeenth century and their national armies" (Printing and the Mind of Man 63). Machiavelli is universally regarded as one of the great thinkers in political philosophy. At the same time, Machiavelli's name has entered everyday usage, connoting sinister machinations and the dark side of politics and power. His name was a familiar part of the English language even in Shakespeare's time, for Hamlet says "I'll put the murderous Machiavel to school." Macaulay wrote, "Out of his [Niccolo Machiavelli's] surname they have coined an epithet for a knave, and out of his Christian name a synonym for the devil." Contemporary English gilt-ruled sheep. Some contemporary marginalia and highlighting. Some wear to spine. Fine.

Janssonius/ Pitt Moses Johann (1588 - 1664) AmsterdamRugia Insula ac Ducatus accuratissime descripta ab E. Lubino. Artist: Janssonius/ Pitt Moses Johann ca ; issued in: Amsterdam; date: ca1640 - - technic: Copper print; - colorit: original colored; - condition: Perfect condition; - size (in cm): 39 x 50,5; - description: Map shows the island of Ruegen with decorative heraldic cartouche, windrose and sea monster.; - vita of the artist: "Johannes Janssonius (Jansson),( 1588- 1664) Amsterdam was born in Arnhem, the son of Jan Janszoon the Elder,a publisher and bookseller. In 1612 he married Elisabeth de Hondt, the daughter of Jodocus Hondius. He produced his first maps in 1616 of France and Italy. In 1623 Janssonius owned a bookstore in Frankfurt am Main, later also in Danzig, Stockholm, Copenhagen, Berlin, Königsberg, Geneva and Lyon. In the 1630s he formed a partnership with his brother in law Henricus Hondius, and together they published atlases as Mercator/Hondius/Janssonius.Under the leadership of Janssonius the Hondius Atlas was steadily enlarged. Renamed Atlas Novus, it had three volumes in 1638, one fully dedicated to Italy. 1646 a fourth volume came out with "English County Maps", a year after a similar issue by Willem Blaeu. Janssonius' maps are similar to those of Blaeu, and he is often accused of copying from his rival, but many of his maps predate those of Blaeu and/or covered different regions. By 1660, at which point the atlas bore the appropriate name "Atlas Major", there were 11 volumes, containing the work of about a hundred credited authors and engravers. It included a description of "most of the cities of the world" (Townatlas), of the waterworld (Atlas Maritimus in 33 maps), and of the Ancient World (60 maps). The eleventh volume was the Atlas of the Heavens by Andreas Cellarius. Editions were printed in Dutch, Latin, French, and a few times in German."

Bracton, Henry deDe Legibus et Consuetudinibus Angliae, Libri Quinque: In Varios 1640. The "Crown and Flower of Medieval Jurisprudence" Bracton, Henry de, [d. 1268]. De Legibus et Consuetudinibus Angliae, Libri Quinque; In Varios Tractatus Distincti, Ad Diversorum et Vetustissimorum Codicum Collationem, Ingenti Cura, Denuo Typus Vulgati. Quorum Quid Cuique Insit, Proxima Pagina Demonstrabit. London: Typis Milonis Flesher & Roberti Young, 1640. [xvi], 444 [i.e. 442] ff. Quarto (9" x 6-1/2"). Later quarter calf over buckram, raised bands and lettering piece to spine, endpapers renewed, early hand-lettered title to fore-edge of text block. Light rubbing to extremities, corners bumped, chipping to head of spine. Light browning to text, light spotting in places, light soiling and later owner signature to title page, some leaves have brief annotations in an early hand. $1,000. * Reissue of the first edition (1569) and the second printing of this work. De Legibus et Consuetudinibus Angliae [The Laws and Customs of England] is the first treatise on English law. A systematic work, it emphasizes the separation of procedural and substantive matters and also cites cases as sources of at least intellectual, if not formal, authority. In Maitland's words, Bracton's Legibus is "the crown and flower of English medieval jurisprudence" and "by far the greatest of our medieval law books." Sweet & Maxwell add that it "is distinguished by rich casuistic details, and by the careful reproduction of the judicial decisions on individual cases of law.": Sweet & Maxwell, A Legal Bibliography of the British Commonwealth 1:51 (6). Maitland, Collected Works II:43. English Short-Title Catalogue S119285.

Antique Map-SOUTH AMERICA-ARGENTINA-TIERRA DEL FUEGO-Janssonius-c.1640 1640 - Antique print, titled: 'Tabula Magellanica qua Tierrae del Fuego.' - A map of the southern tip of South America, with focus on the island then known as Magellanica, Tierra del Fuego. Isla de los Estados (Staten Island) is also shown. The map features two compass roses and decorative cartouches featuring natives and wildlife (penguins). Description: Source unknown, to be determined. State: Second state.Artists and Engravers: Made by an anonymous engraver after 'Johannes Janssonius'. Johannes Janssonius also known as Jan Jansson (1588-1664) was born in Arnhem, Netherlands. His father was a bookseller and publisher (Jan Janszoon the Elder). When he married the daughter of the cartographer Jodocus Hondius he also set up a business as book publisher in Amsterdam. His first map was published in 1616. Around 15 years later he set up a partnership with his brother in law Hondius add issued further editions of the Mercator/Hondius atlas. After his death his heirs still have published several maps. Many of his plates have been acquired by Pieter Schenk and Gerard Valk. Engraving with contemporary hand colouring on hand laid paper. Anonymous. Very good, given age. Original middle fold (as issued). Some small nicks in the margin edges. Margins soiled and with some small creases. A small dark stain in the far left and right edges of the image. A restoration with Japanese paper to the middle fold. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully. The overall size is ca. 58.5 x 46.5 cm. The image size is ca. 56.5 x 45 cm. The overall size is ca. 23 x 18.3 inch. The image size is ca. 22.2 x 17.7 inch. Storage location: Overasselt-242

Merian Matthäus (1593 - 1650) Frankfurt a.M.Hohmburg Artist: Merian Matthäus ca ; issued in: Schwalbach; date: ca1640 - - technic: Copper print; - colorit:; - condition: Very good; - size (in cm): 10 x 34; - description: Total view of Homburg; - vita of the artist: Matthäus Merian (1593 ? 1650) , born in Basel, learned the art of copperplate engraving in Zurich and subsequently worked and studied in Strasbourg, Nancy, and Paris, before returning to Basel in 1615. The following year he moved to Frankfurt, Germany where he worked for the publisher Johann Theodor de Bry. He married his daughter, Maria Magdalena 1617. In 1620 they moved back to Basel, only to return three years later to Frankfurt, where Merian took over the publishing house of his father-in-law after de Bry's death in 1623. In 1626 he became a citizen of Frankfurt and could henceforth work as an independent publisher. He is the father of Maria Sibylla Merian, who later published her the famous and wellknown studies of flowers, insects and butterflies.

Bracton, Henry deDe Legibus et Consuetudinibus Angliae, Libri Quinque: In Varios... 1640. The "Crown and Flower of Medieval Jurisprudence" Bracton, Henry de, [d. 1268]. De Legibus et Consuetudinibus Angliae, Libri Quinque; In Varios Tractatus Distincti, Ad Diversorum et Vetustissimorum Codicum Collationem, Ingenti Cura, Denuo Typus Vulgati. Quorum Quid Cuique Insit, Proxima Pagina Demonstrabit. London: Typis Milonis Flesher & Roberti Young, 1640. [xvi], 444 [i.e. 442] ff. Quarto (9" x 6-1/2"). Later quarter calf over buckram, raised bands and lettering piece to spine, endpapers renewed, early hand-lettered title to fore-edge of text block. Light rubbing to extremities, corners bumped, chipping to head of spine. Light browning to text, light spotting in places, light soiling and later owner signature to title page, some leaves have brief annotations in an early hand. $1,000. * Reissue of the first edition (1569) and the second printing of this work. De Legibus et Consuetudinibus Angliae [The Laws and Customs of England] is the first treatise on English law. A systematic work, it emphasizes the separation of procedural and substantive matters and also cites cases as sources of at least intellectual, if not formal, authority. In Maitland's words, Bracton's Legibus is "the crown and flower of English medieval jurisprudence" and "by far the greatest of our medieval law books." Sweet & Maxwell add that it "is distinguished by rich casuistic details, and by the careful reproduction of the judicial decisions on individual cases of law.": Sweet & Maxwell, A Legal Bibliography of the British Commonwealth 1:51 (6). Maitland, Collected Works II:43. English Short-Title Catalogue S119285.

BESLER, Basilius.A Set of Six Peonies) Nuremberg and Eichstatt 1640 - Six copper engraved plates with hand-colour. Plate size: 50cm x 44 cm. Magnificent plates from "Hortus Eystettensis", one of the earliest and most famous works in the field. The Hortus Eystettensis is a pictorial record of the flowers grown in the greatest German garden of its time, that of Prince Bishop of Eichstatt, Johann Conrad von Gemmingen. The garden was begun by Joachim Camerarius in 1596 and, after his death in 1598, completed by Basil Besler, a pharmacist from Nuremberg. A visitor, Philipp Hainhofer, in 1611 marvelled at the eight gardens, each containing 'flowers from a different country; they varied in the beds and flowers, especially in the beautiful roses, lilies, tulips.' The Hortus records this variety and beauty. The book is exceptional in every sense; in its variety and range of flowers, in its size, in its fine quality of engraving. It is also one of the earliest records of flowers from a specific, documented garden. Besler was asked to complete the work by Gemmingen in 1606; the huge nature of the task was clear to Besler and he enlisted the help of his younger brother Hieronymus and Ludwig Jungermann, a nephew of Camerarius. Printing the Hortus may have begun as early as 1607. Drawings were made in situ and from specimens sent by the Bishop to Nuremberg; the Bishop reported to Hainhofer that he had boxes of fresh flowers sent every week to Besler at Nuremberg for sketching. A team of at least 10 engravers were employed to translate the drawings to copperplates. The gardens, along with most of the town of Eichstatt, were destroyed by the invading Swedish troops under Herzog Bernhard von Weimar in 1633-4, although they were partially restored by later bishops. Many of the original drawings survive in the University Library, Erlangen. Nissen 158; Pritzel 745; Hunt 430; Blunt, pp 95-97; Stafleu & Cowan 497

BLAEU, Johannes.Hibernia Regnum Vulgo Ireland. 1640 - Amsterdam, 1640, French text edition, Original colour. 360 x 500mm. A decorative map of Ireland, embellished with a large decorative coat of arms, decorative title cartouche including the Irish Harp, and scale of miles, all in bright colours. BONAR LAW Pg. 41.

Antique Map-DOMINIO FIORENTINO-FIORENTINA-SIENA-PISA-PERUGIA-ITALY-Blaeu-1640 - Map: 'Dominio Fiorentino.' Beautiful map of Fiorentina, centered on Florence. Includes Siena, Perugia, Luca, and Pisa. Two large decorative cartouches. Copperplate engraving on a verge type of hand-laid paper. With beautiful original old hand colouring. Description: This antique map by Willem Janszoon Blaeu was published in The Netherlands ca. 1640.Artists and Engravers: Willem Janszoon Blaeu (1571 - 1638), also abbreviated to Willem Jansz. Blaeu, was a Dutch cartographer, atlas maker and publisher. He had two sons, Johannes and Cornelis Blaeu, who continued their father's mapmaking and publishing business after his death in 1638. Condition: Good/excellent General age-related toning and light staining from handling as visible on image. Paper in the margins slightly browned. Very wide margins. Please study scan carefully. Storage location: DP-P5-04 The overall size is ca. 24.4 x 20.9 inch. The image size is ca. 19.7 x 15.2 inch. The overall size is ca. 62 x 53 cm. The image size is ca. 50 x 38.5 cm.

Johannes JANSSONIUSGvinea Amsterdam 1640 - Decorativa carta dell'Africa Occidentale tratta dall'Atlas a cura degli eredi Jannsonius, edito dopo il 1656. Bellissima coloritura coeva, eccelente esemplare. Colourful cartouche on the lower border. Two natives sit at the sides of the title, above which is a scroll with flowers and fruit and, in the center, a very human-looking monkey. Each native holds a string of beads in one hand and, in the other hand, one has a spear and the other one, a parrot. Sitting at each side of the masonry surround is a monkey and on the lower left border are two children carrying a large elephant tusk on their shoulders. The interior contains various animals, rivers, lakes and mountains. five sailing ships are depicted in the seas along the coast line. Dimensioni 530 390mm

Hayne, ThomasThe General View of the Holy Scriptures: or, The Time, Places, and Persons of the Holy Scriptures, in handling whereof, First, Shewed Gods dealing with Mankind in several Times; His many and wonderful favours bestowed, and his remarkable judgements inflicted on divers Persons, and Places. Secondly, Occasion is given to explain sundry difficult Places of Scripture, and to set forth the Lives and Deaths of many Kings, Patriarches, Prophets, and Saints of God. All leading to Jesus Christ our Savior Printed by J.B. and S.B. for Henry Ockould, London 1640 - Quarto. Imprimatur, Sam: Baker. (18) 355 (9)pp. Original leather with gilt lettering on label of spine; raised bands. Housed in orange clamshell box with gilt lettering on spine. Double-ruling and decorative headpieces and initials. Decorative printer's devices on title page and facing page. Ruling of text pages with printed shoulder notes. Dedication to Sir Paul Pindar, Kt. and epistle to the Christian reader by Thomas Hayne, the English schoolmaster and theologian. Alphabetical table (Index) at rear. Clamshell box with library barcode in upper right corner of front cover. Binding damaged due to water exposure and some worming and chips on front, chips on back cover. Spine cracked at joints and starting at front and back gutters. Binding in general a bit loose but holding. Exlibris of Mr. W.H. Elliot with coat of arms on inside front cover. Title page with one inch missing at top, dedication page with half an inch missing at top. Block with some age toning and water staining starting on page 265 through end. Clamshell box in near fine, binding in poor, interior in good- condition. Ex-Library Second edition revised and very much enlarged. [Attributes: Soft Cover]